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    HubSpot CMS tutorial (Part two)

    Posted by Shari Sultana on Tue, Sep 01, 2009
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    As an internet marketing virtual assistant who specializes in assisting HubSpot customers I have created this tutorial to help my clients learn how to make simple changes to their HubSpot websites. This is the second in a planned series of "how to" videos.

    Transcript:

    This is Shari Sultana from Modern Marketing Support. Today we're going inside the HubSpot dashboard to learn how to change our website's color scheme using advanced options.

     

    You’re going to learn how to change the font and hover color of the navigation bar. You’ll also learn how to change the background color of your HubSpot website.
     
    To make changes to the color scheme you need to use the Settings tab up here in the right hand corner. Click on that. 
     
    We're going to click on Template Configuration. You'll see it says "adjust the colors of your website". Let's click on it.
    Inside here there are 2 areas. Once is basic and the other is for more advanced customization. In part one of this 2 part  tutorial we looked at basic customization. Today we'll just look at the advanced customization. 
     
    Let’s click on the Advanced Color Selection tab.  Scroll down until you see Menu Hover Text Color.  It tells you “this will be the text color when you hover over each menu item.  Right now the color is very light. So we’ll make it darker and easier to read. 
     
    You can use the color picker to help you choose the color you want to use. You can either scroll through this color bar on the right or you can use the t inside this box to help you select the right color. As you move through the color palette you’ll see the little square box to the right above change to the color you’re selecting. For an exact color match you can enter the hexadecimal color inside the box to the left above.  Once you’ve chosen the color you want, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Save.
     
    See how it says "changes saved. view website"? That tells you your color has been changed and you can go and see your changes. Let's go see how it looks. See how the color of the text changes as you hover over it? It’s a darker color now and is easier to read. Now, let's go change the color of the menu text. This will be the text color for the current menu item.
     
    Click on the Settings tab again and choose Template Configuration and then Advanced Color Selection. Scroll down to find Menu on Text Color. Use the color picker to choose your color or enter the hexadecimal color in the hexadecimal color box. Once you’re happy with the color you’ve chosen, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save.
     
    Click Return to Website and check out what you’ve done!  It makes a difference when you can see the title of the page you’re on.
     
    The last thing we’ll do now is change the background color of your website. Let’s say we think the white background is boring. We can easily liven it up with the click of a mouse. Let’s go to Settings. Then click on Template Configuration. Then click on Advanced Color Selection. Scroll down until you find Content Background. This will be the background color for the main page content. Select a color using the color picker. When you’re happy with the color you’ve chosen scroll to the bottom and click Save.
     
    Click Return to Website and look at your handiwork. That’s all there is to it. It’s really simple and easy to do. If you don’t like the color you’ve chosen you can easily go back and change it to whatever you like. Next time you’ll learn how to change the background of the Modules and you’ll learn how to customize your pages using a one, two or 3 column layout.
     


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    Changing the colors on your HubSpot website is a breeze

    Posted by Shari Sultana on Tue, Aug 18, 2009
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    As an internet marketing virtual assistant who specializes in assisting HubSpot customers I thought it might be helpful to produce a series of video tutorials to help my clients learn how to make simple changes to their HubSpot websites. This is the first in a planned series of "how to" videos.

     

    Transcript:

    Hi everyone,

    This is Shari Sultana from Modern Marketing Support. Today we're going inside the HubSpot dashboard to learn how to change our website's color scheme.

    We've recently changed our logo header and the color scheme we currently have doesn't match our new look. So, we want to change that. 

    HubSpot has a couple of different website templates available within their content management system. We're using the Brighton template.

    As you can see, right now now our website has purple side panels and a green navigation bar. To make our website coordinate with our new header we need to go into the Settings tab. The Settings tab is over here in the right top corner. Click on that.

    Inside the Settings tab you'll find the inner sanctum of your HubSpot website. It's divided into sections and we want the section called Content Management System. We're going to click on Template Configuration. You'll see it says "adjust the colors of your website". Let's click on it.

    Inside here there are 2 areas. Once is basic and the other is for more advanced customization. Today we'll just look at the Basic customization and in a second tutorial we'll look at Advanced customization.

    Now, there's also a logo/color wizard up at the top here but let's ignore that this time. We'll check that out in another tutorial.

    You'll notice that we can adjust the Primary, Secondary and Background colors. Let's go ahead and adjust the background color first. When we do that we'll actually be changing the colors of the side panels. 

    Click on color picker and you'll see this color palette appear. We can change our color one of 2 ways. If we don't know the exact color we want we can move this T around and you'll see the color changing in the box.

    Or, if you know the hexadecimal number of the color you want then you can add it in this box here. I know the color I want is DAF1F7 so I'm going to enter it here in the box. You'll see it change to the color I want and then we'll click Save.

    See how it says "changes saved. view website"? That's great. Let's go see how it looks. Wow. That looks much better. Now, let's go change the navigation bar.

    If we want to change the navigation bar we click on Primary color. We'll add the hexadecimal number BFE5EE and click Save. Now, let's go view our changes and see how it looks.

    Much better. Now if we wanted to we could also change the color of the font within the navigation bar and we can also change the hover color as well. But those are advanced options and I'll show you how to do that in the next tutorial.

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